which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the
Submission be known as the Linked Data Basic Profile Submission.

Abstract

The Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0 specification defines a set of best
practices and a simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture,
based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF. The
specification builds on the
four principles Tim Berners-Lee used to define "Linked Data" and provides
some new rules as well as clarifications and extensions to achieve greater
interoperability between Linked Data implementations.

Intellectual Property Statements

The below statements concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and
Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of themselves and
their affiliated organizations:

Steve Holbrook, AC representative, IBM

Michael Hausenblas, AC representative, DERI

Wayne Adams, AC representative, EMC

Jeff Mischkinsky, AC representative, Oracle

Mark Little, AC representative, Red Hat

Eric Franzon, AC representative, SemanticWeb.com

David Green, AC representative, Tasktop

Copyrights

Each organization, respectively, hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual,
nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any its
copyrights on this contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the
contribution under the W3C
document licenses.

Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a
W3C Activity, each organization grants a right and license of the same
scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or
incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Each organization further
agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C
shall be solely owned by the W3C.

Patents

Each organization, respectively, agrees to offer licenses according to
the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section
5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the
Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.

Suggested action

The Linked Enterprise Data
Patterns workshop, held in December 2011, ended with unanimous agreement
that "the W3C should create a Working Group to produce a W3C Recommendation
which defines a Linked Data Platform [...], [expecting] this to be an
enumeration of specs which constitute linked data, with some small additional
specs to cover things like pagination, if necessary".

We suggest that the Consortium proceeds with the creation of such a Working
Group and uses this Submission as a starting point.

Resources

To help with this work we expect, but do not commit, to be able to provide
representatives to participate in the working group. Siemens and Cambridge
Semantics also stated that they are supportive of this submission and expect,
but do not commit, to participate in the working group.

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed
to: Steve Holbrook <shh@us.ibm.com>